U of L coach Rick Pitino, with players Chane Behanan (left) and Russ Smith (right), is the first coach to win a national title at two different schools.

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Jonathan Lintner
| The Courier-Journal

The American Advertising Federation of Louisville just made Rick Pitino's last year even better.

AAF-Louisville - the area's oldest membership organization for marketing, advertising, and other communications professionals - announced Monday that the University of Louisville's basketball coach is its 2013 Louisvillian of the Year.

Pitino joins past winners such as Muhammad Ali and Ulysses Bridgeman, Jr., as well as U of L president James Ramsey and athletic director Tom Jurich, named since AAF-Louisville first bestowed the award in 1951. ...